Description

At Apple, we work every day to create products that enrich people’s lives. Our Advertising Platforms group makes it possible for people around the world to easily access informative and imaginative content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work. Our technology and services power advertising in Apple News and Search Ads in App Store. Our platforms are highly-performant, deployed at scale, and setting new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy. Launched in 2016, Search Ads is an easy, efficient and fast-growing platform for app discovery. With over 65% of all app downloads resulting directly from a search in the App Store, Search Ads is quickly becoming the app promotion platform of choice for iOS developers. We are looking for a smart, motivated Sales Programs and Operations Manager to support our growing Search Ads business. In this role, you help ensure that the Partner Development organization focuses on the most impactful activities and operates in the most efficient way. You’ll develop and lead priority programs, measure success, and own core operational aspects of the team. You’ll be responsible for developing recommendations and crafting solutions to complex, ambiguous and high visibility business issues, with the goal of driving significant business growth.

- Manage Sales Operations Analysts who partner with regional Sales Leads to define business cadence (planning, budgeting, business reviews), improve processes, monitor execution, and drive accountability and visibility of progress against goals and objectives - Assess and provide insights on market opportunities for various channels, geographies and service levels to boost sales performance including informing go-to-market strategies for Search Ads, improvements to our Partner Development team’s capabilities and performance, and product enhancements - Develop and implement global and regional sales strategies and programs including translating big picture goals into day to day accountability for the sales organization and collaboration with cross-functional partners (e.g., Finance, Marketing, Product, Operations, Analytics) to ensure successful initiatives, like new product or new market launches - Set clear objectives and measures, and monitor progress, process and results including establishing reporting frameworks for Partner Development to drive consistency efficiency and prioritization - Bring customer and market feedback back into the organization to identify gaps / issues and recommend solutions/programs to address them

About the company

Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, the Mac and Apple Watch. Apple’s three software platforms — iOS, OS X and watchOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.

Apple is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We also take affirmative action to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.